Pride month may be over, but July is doing the most (and let’s face it – Pride month is more like Pride Summer). This month brings the final ever episodes of I Kissed a Girl, the long-awaited Heartstopper farewell film, Elle Woods’s origin story (with a lesbian best friend, naturally), sapphic body horror from Australia, and dragons every Sunday. Here’s what to clear your schedule for this month.
A Shot At Love – Chéra TV (Out Now)
A sapphic romance made for your phone screen? A Shot At Love is embracing the world of vertical storytelling, delivering all the addictive hooks, campy twists and bingeable pacing of a scrolling-era drama, while bringing the same care and craft as traditional film and television.
The super-sapphic series was created by a predominantly female and queer team, with all 50 episodes filmed in just seven days – no small feat for a production of this scale. Created as a love letter to lesbian romance and collaboration, the project was made by a team of friends and creatives passionate about telling queer stories in new ways.
Described by its creators as “campy, light and super sapphic”, A Shot At Love leans fully into the fun of the vertical format while celebrating lesbian love at its heart. If you’re looking for an easy, addictive watch full of romance and queer joy, this one is worth adding to your next doom-scroll.
Watch on: Chéra TV now.
I Kissed a Girl series 2 – BBC iPlayer and BBC Three (final episodes 14 July)
The main event. The second and final series of I Kissed a Girl is in full swing at the Italian masseria, with Dannii Minogue playing Cupid one last time and Charley Marlowe on narration duties – she even makes a special appearance in Italy this series. Ten single sapphic women, matched by experts, meeting for the first time with a kiss – and this year’s cast have already delivered on the drama, the tenderness and the turned heads.
The BBC has axed the franchise, citing funding challenges, so this really is our last summer in the masseria (unless Tinder picks IKAG up). All the more reason to savour it and prove the stats. New episodes drop in pairs every Tuesday at 6am on iPlayer (9pm on BBC Three), with the final two landing on 14 July. If you need to catch up on who’s who, we’ve got you covered.
Watch on: BBC iPlayer and BBC Three (UK). In the US, series 1 is on Hulu and series 2 is expected to follow later this year – or there’s always a VPN and a BBC account if you can’t wait.
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A Year in London – UK Cinemas (17 July)
Fashion, first love and a very complicated student-teacher crush? Sign us up. A Year in London follows Olivia, a young Italian fashion student who moves to London to study at a prestigious fashion school, where she forms an unexpected connection with her charismatic mentor, celebrated designer Nina Clark. After the pair survive a traumatic incident together, their bond deepens into something neither of them can ignore.
Set against the backdrop of London’s fashion scene, the Anglo-Italian romance explores identity, ambition and falling for someone who could change your entire life. Directed by Flaminia Graziadei and starring Melanie Liburd and Nina Pons, the film also weaves in themes of sustainability, inclusion and self-discovery – all while delivering a swoon-worthy sapphic love story.
If you’re in the mood for yearning, gorgeous fashion and women falling in love in London, this one should be firmly on your watchlist.
Watch in: UK and Irish cinemas from 17 July.
Heartstopper Forever – Netflix (17 July)
Grab the tissues: Nick and Charlie’s story comes to a close with Heartstopper Forever, a feature-length finale in place of a fourth season. Written by Alice Oseman and directed by Wash Westmoreland, the film picks up with Nick preparing to leave for university and Charlie finding his feet at school, as the pair face the realities of long distance for the first time.
Yes, it’s centred on the boys, but the whole found family is back – including Tara and Darcy, our favourite sapphic couple, and Yasmin Finney’s Elle – all navigating love, friendship and growing up one last time. The trailer is soundtracked by an Olivia Rodrigo song, which feels like a personal attack on our tear ducts. Four years of the sweetest queer show on television, wrapped up in one film. We’re not ready, but we’ll be watching anyway.
Watch on: Netflix worldwide from 17 July.
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Elle – Prime Video (out now, 1 July)
Elle Woods is back – or rather, she’s 16, it’s 1995, and her family has just moved her from sun-soaked LA to grunge-era Seattle. Elle is the Legally Blonde prequel series from Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, with newcomer Lexi Minetree stepping into the pink platforms, and all eight episodes dropped at once for maximum bingeing.
The reason it’s on this list: Elle’s first and best friend in Seattle is Liz, a dry-witted lesbian record store girl played by queer actor Gabrielle Policano – and the directing team includes Sammi Cohen, who gave us the sapphic rom-com Crush. Expect big 90s fashion, big feelings, and a welcome dose of queerness in the Elle Woods universe. It’s already been renewed for a second season, so Liz is going nowhere.
Watch on: Prime Video worldwide now.
Saccharine – Australian cinemas (9 July) / Shudder UK and US (24 July)
One for the horror girlies, with a caveat: Saccharine deals head-on with disordered eating and body image, so please give this one a miss if that subject matter is difficult for you. From Relic director Natalie Erika James, this Australian body horror follows Hana (Midori Francis of The Sex Lives of College Girls), a medical student who falls into a grim weight-loss craze – eating human ashes – and finds herself haunted by the person she’s consuming.
It’s told explicitly through a queer lens: Hana is a queer woman, her gym crush Alanya is played by Madeleine Madden, and critics have called it an effective queer love story wrapped inside a razor-sharp takedown of diet culture in the Ozempic era. Gruesome, pointed and very now.
Watch in: Australian cinemas from 9 July (streaming later on Stan). Streaming on Shudder in the UK, Ireland, US and Canada from 24 July.
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House of the Dragon season 3 – HBO Max / Sky Atlantic (Sundays throughout July)
Caveat upfront, Jodie Foster-style: this isn’t a sapphic show, but it does star nonbinary icon Emma D’Arcy as Rhaenyra Targaryen, a woman fighting an entire patriarchy for her throne, with dragons. Season 3 covers the war between the Targaryen factions at full scale – Rhaenyra looks poised for victory, Aegon is on the run, and an uneasy bargain with Alicent hangs over everything.
New episodes land every Sunday in the US (Mondays in the UK) right through July, making it the perfect weekly appointment television while you recover from the IKAG finale. Watch it for the spectacle, the scheming, and two queens locked in the most fraught situationship in Westeros.
Watch on: HBO Max (US and Australia). Sky Atlantic and NOW (UK), with new episodes from early Monday morning.
The Hawk – Netflix (16 July)
A comedy about a washed-up golfer would not normally make this list, but The Hawk has a secret weapon: Fortune Feimster. Will Ferrell stars as Lonnie “The Hawk” Hawkins, 2004’s number one golfer, refusing to accept his career is over – and Fortune plays Sam, the caddie he recruits from a supermarket car park who becomes his unlikely good luck charm.
Early word is that the Lonnie-and-Sam dynamic becomes a genuinely fun lesbian/straight man buddy comedy, with Molly Shannon on scene-stealing duty as Lonnie’s foul-mouthed ex-wife. All ten episodes drop at once, and Fortune has said she’s never had more fun making a show. Low stakes, high silliness, perfect summer viewing.
Watch on: Netflix worldwide from 16 July.
Other queer releases on our radar
A few more releases are worth flagging this month. Survival of the Thickest returns to Netflix for its third and final season on 2 July, with a flurry of queer guest stars and Peppermint back as a fictionalised version of herself – last season she got married with a House of Balenciaga dance number, so expectations are high. The Vampire Lestat (Interview with the Vampire season 3) continues weekly on AMC+ (US) through late July, with Lestat in full rock star mode – still not sapphic, still deliciously queer. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds launches its final full season on Paramount+ from 23 July, and Fortune Feimster completes her July hat-trick with a role in pickleball comedy The Dink on Apple TV from 24 July. On the sapphic front, we’re still waiting on a UK release date for Hayley Kiyoko’s Girls Like Girls after its US cinema run in June – watch this space, and we’ll shout the moment it lands. And while there’s no date yet, Netflix has confirmed The Hunting Wives season 2 is coming later this year, so Sophie and Margo’s toxic Texan situationship will be back on our screens before long.
See you on the sofa.
Nonchalant x
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This article was written by one of our creative team writers here at Nonchalant Magazine.
